Benjamin Mako Hill

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Benjamin Mako Hill

Computer Science

#1307

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#1350

Historical Rank

#664

USA Rank

Database

#1750

World Rank

#1835

Historical Rank

#444

USA Rank

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According to Wikipedia, Benjamin Mako Hill is a free software activist, hacker, author, and professor. He is a contributor and free software developer as part of the Debian and Ubuntu projects as well as the co-author of three technical manuals on the subject, Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 Bible, The Official Ubuntu Server Book, and The Official Ubuntu Book.

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Benjamin Mako Hill's Published Works

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LilyPad in the wild: how hardware's long tail is supporting new engineering and design communities (2010) (234)
The Wikipedia Gender Gap Revisited: Characterizing Survey Response Bias with Propensity Score Estimation (2013) (181)
Laboratories of Oligarchy? How the Iron Law Extends to Peer Production (2014) (162)
Remixing as a Pathway to Computational Thinking (2016) (104)
Computers can't give credit: how automatic attribution falls short in an online remixing community (2010) (74)
Surviving an "Eternal September": How an Online Community Managed a Surge of Newcomers (2016) (67)
The Remixing Dilemma (2012) (52)
Scratch Community Blocks: Supporting Children as Data Scientists (2017) (46)
Youth Perspectives on Critical Data Literacies (2017) (44)
How Activists Are Both Born and Made: An Analysis of Users on Change.org (2015) (44)
The Social Production of Ethics in Debian and Free Software Communities: Anthropological Lessons for Vocational Ethics (2005) (34)
Skill Progression in Scratch Revisited (2016) (32)
Revisiting "The Rise and Decline" in a Population of Peer Production Projects (2018) (32)
Peer Production: A Modality of Collective Intelligence (2015) (32)
The cost of collaboration for code and art: evidence from a remixing community (2013) (30)
Responses to Remixing on a Social Media Sharing Website (2010) (29)
Learning to Code in Localized Programming Languages (2017) (28)
Computer supported collective action (2014) (24)
A longitudinal dataset of five years of public activity in the Scratch online community (2017) (22)
Studying Populations of Online Communities (2020) (21)
Consider the Redirect: A Missing Dimension of Wikipedia Research (2014) (21)
The Wikipedia Adventure: Field Evaluation of an Interactive Tutorial for New Users (2017) (20)
Privacy, Anonymity, and Perceived Risk in Open Collaboration: A Study of Service Providers (2019) (19)
Who Uses Bots? A Statistical Analysis of Bot Usage in Moderation Teams (2020) (17)
A Computational Analysis of Social Media Scholarship (2018) (17)
How “Wide Walls” Can Increase Engagement: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Scratch (2018) (16)
Technological Frames and User Innovation (2019) (16)
Page protection: another missing dimension of Wikipedia research (2015) (15)
Quality Standards, Service Orientation, and Power in Airbnb and Couchsurfing (2017) (14)
Managing Organizational Culture in Online Group Mergers (2018) (13)
The Official Ubuntu Server Book (2009) (13)
WeDo: End-To-End Computer Supported Collective Action (2014) (12)
Democratizing Data Science: The Community Data Science Workshops and Classes (2017) (11)
The Sociology of Innovation (2010) (11)
The Hidden Costs of Requiring Accounts: Quasi-Experimental Evidence From Peer Production (2020) (11)
Density Dependence Without Resource Partitioning: Population Ecology on Change.org (2017) (11)
Almost Wikipedia : Eight Early Encyclopedia Projects and the Mechanisms of Collective Action (2014) (10)
Gender, Feedback, and Learners' Decisions to Share Their Creative Computing Projects (2018) (10)
Essays on volunteer mobilization in peer production (2013) (9)
Designing for Critical Algorithmic Literacies (2020) (8)
Cooperation and Attribution in an Online Community of Young Creators (2009) (7)
Wikipedia and the End of Open Collaboration (2019) (7)
Are anonymity-seekers just like everybody else? An analysis of contributions to Wikipedia from Tor (2019) (7)
A Forensic Qualitative Analysis of Contributions to Wikipedia from Anonymity Seeking Users (2019) (7)
No Community Can Do Everything: Why People Participate in Similar Online Communities (2022) (6)
All Talk: How Increasing Interpersonal Communication on Wikis May Not Enhance Productivity (2019) (6)
From hanging out to figuring it out: Socializing online as a pathway to computational thinking (2020) (5)
Identifying Competition and Mutualism Between Online Groups (2021) (5)
Tor Users Contributing to Wikipedia: Just Like Everybody Else? (2019) (5)
Underproduction: An Approach for Measuring Risk in Open Source Software (2021) (4)
The effects of algorithmic flagging on fairness: quasi-experimental evidence from Wikipedia (2020) (4)
All Talk (2019) (4)
Official Ubuntu Book, The (2008) (4)
Reflections on free software past and future (2005) (4)
The Most Important Laboratory for Social Scientific and Computing Research in History (2019) (4)
Collaborative Literary Creation and Control (2003) (2)
Fail whaling: designing from deviance and failures in social computing (2012) (2)
The Official Ubuntu Book (2nd Edition) (2007) (2)
Effects of Algorithmic Flagging on Fairness (2021) (2)
Cooperation in Parallel A Tool for Supporting Collaborative Writing in Diverged Documents (2007) (1)
Status, Social Signaling, and Collective Action: A Field Study of Awards on Wikipedia (2012) (1)
WeDo: Exploring Participatory, End-To-End Collective Action (2014) (1)
Protection : Another Missing Dimension of Wikipedia Research (2015) (1)
How individual behaviors drive inequality in online community sizes: an agent-based simulation (2020) (1)
When free software isn\'t (practically) superior (2011) (1)
The official ubuntu book, third edition (2008) (1)
The social embeddedness of peer production: A comparative qualitative analysis of three Indian language Wikipedia editions (2022) (1)
How Interest-Driven Content Creation Shapes Opportunities for Informal Learning in Scratch: A Case Study on Novices’ Use of Data Structures (2022) (1)
Socio-Political Approaches to Open Collaboration. Proceeding Wikisym '10 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration (2010) (1)
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Technology: Legal and Policy Challenges (2007) (1)
Communication networks do not predict success in attempts at peer production (2023) (0)
Many Destinations, Many Pathways: A Quantitative Analysis of Legitimate Peripheral Participation in Scratch (2022) (0)
Qualities of Quality: A Tertiary Review of Software Quality Measurement Research (2021) (0)
From Hanging Out to Figuring It Out (2020) (0)
Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium at the 15th International Symposium on Open Collaboration (2019) (0)
Communication networks do not explain the growth or survival of early-stage peer production projects (2019) (0)
Creative Collaboration General Examination Administered by Mitch Resnick (2010) (0)
Debian GNU/Linux 3.X Bible (Bible) (2005) (0)
Samir Chopra, Scott D. Dexter, Decoding Liberation: The Promise of Free and Open Source Software (2008) (0)
Chapter 1 Revealing Errors (2017) (0)
Reviewing and challenging socio-political approaches in the analysis of open collaboration and collective action online (2010) (0)
How Gender, Ethnicity, and Public Presentation Shape Coding Perseverance after Hackathons (2022) (0)
The official ubuntu book, second edition (2007) (0)
Measuring Learning of Code Patterns in Informal Learning Environments (Abstract Only) (2017) (0)
The Risks, Benefits, and Consequences of Prepublication Moderation: Evidence from 17 Wikipedia Language Editions (2022) (0)
Archival Data for Page Protection: Another Missing Dimension of Wikipedia Research (2016) (0)

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